Pew (blog)
Higher education and workforce leaders discuss policies to better align offerings with job market demands.
Work Shift
Without careful design, expanding Pell to short-term programs could sever the very rural training pipelines it’s meant to strengthen, limiting students’ access to the jobs their communities need most.
Real Clear Education
Colleges and training providers will need to mobilize quickly to deliver high-quality programs that have long existed outside the bounds of traditional institutions and beyond the reach of public funding.
National Skills Coalition (blog)
With so many variables at play, state advocates must act quickly and strategically to advance both offensive and defensive tactics in service of short-term wins and long-term visions for the workforce system. This will require an in-depth understanding of state policy and meaningful organizing of new voices across sectors.
Texas Tribune
The state isn’t providing schools with guidance and advocates say students who still qualify for lower rates are being asked to pay thousands more.
Oregon Capital Chronicle
Federal officials are withholding funding meant to help migrant farmworkers and their families earn diplomas and degrees.
Texarkana Gazette
A community college and various advocacy groups who want to restore in-state tuition for undocumented students cannot join a federal lawsuit over the Texas Dream Act, according to a ruling last Friday from a federal judge.
EdSource
State legislators have until September 12 to pass education bills, including measures to reduce antisemitism, increase teacher salaries and make it easier for students to access financial aid and online courses.
